Missing A/L papers found
Five A/L examination papers of students who had sat for the examination on Buddhist Civilisation which had gone missing, were discovered on Tuesday (3), the Ceylon Teachers Services Union said yesterday.
The union’s General Secretary Mahinda Jayasinghe said the discovery was made at an Advanced Level results assessment centre at the Embilipitiya Maha Vidyalaya. The second part of the answer scripts which include essay type questions had gone missing while the Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in part one of the answer scripts were intact.
He said it was found that the students of the aforesaid answer scripts had faired well in the MCQ section but could not pass the Advanced Level exams and was not eligible to further their studies.
“The reason for such a problem to occur is because answer scripts were not collected and distributed at the right time from the examination centres to the assessment and correction centres and due to this failure students have had to suffer,” Jayasinghe said.
“Students and parents have already refused to accept the Advanced Level results. These types of errors will increase their suspicion and distrust over their results and the education system in the country,” he said.
Courtesy: DM Online
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Overall result is wrong. Some subjects old syllabus suffers, other subjects new syllabus suffer. This issue may go on for months and years due to legal issues. Continuing to give excuses and keeping an erroneous result would prolong the issue. However much they try and keep a wrong Z score result as candidates performance would not sustain. Separate release of z scores could resolve this issue, basic error is in methodology used to pool results. Formula used is not applicable when the mean values and standard deviations of examination papers are not equal. Mistake is that they assumed means are equal. Over hundred different papers were marked on different subjects most of the means are not equal and the format of examination papers were different. Therefore pooling data to obtain a common z score and a combined mean are not applicable. Separate Z score results give correct figures. If the Z score results are incorrect that needs to be corrected and issued separately. Until separate results are issued prolonged legal issues would go on. Now if there are data entry issues as well ! Best solution is to give the z scores separately and resolve this issue without further prolonging confused state in A/L results.